George and Junior

Red Hot Rangers

George and Junior was a short-lived cartoon series by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the 1940s directed by Tex Avery. The shorts followed the misadventures of two bears based on George and Lennie from John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men:^[1] George, the short, short-tempered intelligent one (voiced by Frank Graham) and Junior, the tall, dim-witted one (voiced by Avery himself). The characters' looks and voices were altered for their fourth appearance. Later they were brought back to life by Pat Ventura on the Hanna-Barbera anthology franchise What-A-Cartoon! in the 1990s voiced by John Rubinow and Tony Pope. George would usually come up with a plan to fix their current situation, Junior would accidentally mess it up somehow resulting with an angry George saying "Bend over, Junior", and, when Junior does so, George delivers a hard kick to his rear end. A grey-purple version of George made a cameo appearance in a headshot during the final scene of Who Framed Roger Rabbit (the octopus from Half-Pint Pygmy also made a cameo as the bartender at The Ink and Paint Club).

Cartoons

• Henpecked Hoboes (1946)
• Hound Hunters (1947)
• Red Hot Rangers (1947)
• Half-Pint Pygmy (1948) - banned from television due to racial stereotypes
• Lucky Ducky (1948) - was ultimately produced with two dog characters^[2]
• Look Out Below (1995)
• George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular (1995)

References

1. "George and Junior". www.bcdb.com, February 2, 2012
2. Adamson, Joe, Tex Avery: King of Cartoons, 1975, De Capo Press

External links

• George and Junior at the Big Cartoon DataBase
• Henpecked Hoboes at the Internet Movie Database
• Hound Hunters at the Internet Movie Database
• Red Hot Rangers at the Internet Movie Database
• Half-Pint Pygmy at the Internet Movie Database
• George and Junior: Look Out Below at the Internet Movie Database
• George and Junior's Christmas Spectacular at the Internet Movie Database